The International

As other reviewers have already said, this is great entertainment; as far as the negative reviews go, I’d chalk that up to the type of viewer who can’t appreciate anything that isn’t constant over the top mindless computer graphics violence and gratuitous sex.The most important thing here is the insight you get into how the world really works, or who controls everything, and how they do it. Even though they only touch on the periphery of that, debt/credit, it’s still a big piece of the puzzle, and all you have to do to get the rest of it is go even higher than the banks, because someone controls them. I’ll leave it to you to figure out who that is. Hint, they control all the world’s money, and own the banks.

"What seems to us more important, more painful, and more unendurable is really not what is more important, more painful and more unendurable, but merely that which is closer to home. Everything distant, which for all its moans and muffled cries, its ruined lives and millions of victims, that does not threaten to come rolling up to our threshold today, we consider endurable and of tolerable dimensions."Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynClive Owen and Naomi Watts star as an obsessed Interpol investigator and the NYC DA based on actual facts of the effort to go after the International banker to terrorists. The bank CEO was fired in Europe one day, appeared as the head of the Bank of Ukraine the next morning.The genial family man banker defends his behavior with "if you get me, there are 100s waiting in line behind me to take my place."The profitability of war debt to control politicians, selling war armaments to both sides of a conflict, and the bankers who finance the sales is a chilling action thriller, against the architecture of modernist Stasi Germany Lyon Mussolini's Rome, run down NYC's Guggenheim Museum, cisterns below and Grand Bazaar roofs wedged between the medieval Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia of Istanbul.Bonus Features: full film commentary, making of feature, architectural sites, slide show of the actual bank under investigation.Would definitely recommend The International full film commentary, a refreshing to listen to literate conversation in the public domain akin to BBC Foyle's War series fact based murder mysteries woven around archives of the British Imperial Museum curated by Terry Charman historian, Mass Observation Project diaries of ordinary UK citizens from 1937 to the present, archival newspaper reports, radio broadcasts, police records and trial transcripts of UK pre-WWII through the Cold War. Humor, historical truth, secrecy, politics, envy vanity power maximizing profits, diplomacy sacrifice. FDR described Stalin as a humorous drinking partner, charming host and social butterfly who never kept a promise vs Churchill taciturn stiff upper lip who could be depended upon to keep his word.5*

Interpol detective Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) sees his partner murdered after he gains information about a large transaction by the International Bank of Business and Credit. Salinger was working with U.S. Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) on an investigation into the bank. It turns out other people are turning up dead as well. The International is a political thriller about Salinger and Whitman trying to figure out what the bank was doing that would lead it to order the deaths of so many people. The theme of the film is corporations who believe they are more powerful than the rule of law and the countries they operate in.The movie sets a great mood at the start. Salinger is angry at the death of his partner and frustrated with the Interpol bureaucracy that doesn’t seem to care. He believes the bank might be trying to kill him. This gives the film a Film Noir feel to it with the main character up against an impenetrable system.The story is full of intrigue and politics which Salinger and Whitman have to pick their way through to discover the bank’s actions and motives. This adds to the mystery and suspense.The International is a really a great thriller with the right mood and the right tension and great writing.

This movie has all of the elements you need for failure - cardboard characters in a cartoonish plot written by failing middle school students. The acting was straight out of the “I’m just stealing my paycheck” tradition. If you are looking for the cinematic version of a root canal you would strike gold with this forgettable mess of a film.

They finance weapons in return for concessions in any resources the eventual victor happens to have.I kinda think that if EVERYbody in some of those war-torn places HAD a gun, then the ones that DID have 'em wouldn't be murderin' the ones that DON'T have 'em.That's the trouble with foreign aid and all our government-to-government interactions. When aid goes directly to governments, it enriches the ruling class, but doesn't seem to help anything but the extraction of the resources the banks had their eye on all along.It's pretty messed-up. This movie offers up one solution that's questionable, morally, but semi-satisfying, viscerally.

A ripping yarn with an absolutely astonishing set piece - a shoot-out in Guggenheim Museum New York! Clive Owen rather intense in his part and a little annoying but a story, based on truth, well told and immaculately filmed across many cities. Iconic modern architecture is the other star, worth viewing for the fabulously opulent buildings alone. Worth watching the extra featuring how they filmed the Guggenheim Museum sequence.

yes a supper film

Arrived in a timely fashion. Excellent, and gripping story concerning the global dominance of big banks, and the difficulty of bringing them to justice.

I love the story line and as I have been in lockdown since March 2020 a new video is always welcome, I cannot get out to the cinema so it’s the next best thing

An excellent and fast moving action thriller with substance, a good script and excellent directing. One of Clive Owens best movies.